The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-06
The Fast Express Over the b. & o.
cOllides With a Freight.
Nineteen Crushed and Burned VIc-
tins Taken Out Dead.
A Coach and Baggage Car TANNED
into the Space Of One.
Two Trains in Massachusetts, Wrecked
and Take Fire.
One Passenger Killed and a Number
Badly Wounded.

TIFYIS. Ohio, Jan. 4.-The fast train on
the Baltimore q Ohio, which left New
HOrk about O'elock yesterday tor Chi
eag0, with iive Coaches sGd four sleepers
ali well niled with passengers, collideC
WHh the eastern bound freight clever
nilss east OF this city. about O'CLOCK
thia morning. The fast train was aDOu
dfiy minutes late and was running at the
rae u sixty milss Al hour, passing Re-
public, . small station, like d ash. They
rushed along % 4 curve = mile west Of that
tDWn- when sudden the engineer saw .
frright train under Guli headwsy within .
hundred yards ii him. lie az once
applied the brakes and reversed his engine
bat IL did no gOO1, and the next instant q
crash came telescOpIDg the coaches aud
ptliag them up on each other. To add
consiernatiDn 90 the horrible scene a FIRE
broke out IN the smoking car and sooB
spread o other care. Many were killeu
outright. while others were WedRed IN
an 5og broken cars and slowly Consumed
by q lmes. Screams Of the wounded and
dying were hssrtrendinR, but no assist-
ance could be given until farmer.
awakened BY the crash. came
VIVA other neiglOOrs and worked
Ike heroes "a save those
Wb0 we're perishinR. At this writing nine
tssn osad b dies have bssn recovered and
they lie burned and dIsngured in the sDo~
beside the track. Help was sent from Re.
pub!ic and this city - som - the news
Wa received. IL IL q fearful sight and re
calls 'be Ashtsbuls hJrror of the winter
q 1877. IL IL impossible 20 give the
names q killed or wounded It this time.
AT TnE SCENE OF THE WKECK.
TIFFIN ONO, January. 4th 1857
Nnen
stove pipe fits into another and all that
could be seen was one chaotic mass Of
brass, iron and steel. At IN early hour
de OF people came 70 the scene Of
the disaster ready and anxious 70 do what
they could for the unfortunate sufferers,
hut IL sppeArs that as soon as the BAlti-
more 4 Ohio agents could get 10 the
place where the Wne K occurred for some
reason they were behooVed TO hastily car
~ out Of the county the wounded, dying
and dead. Your correspondent was only
permitted 20 see four persons that had es-
capped the awful hOlOcast, in which IL lie
two bodies burned into = sickening
crispy mass Of hssh aud bones
beyond all pOssib.e recognition.
from the report of . survivor II would
appear that nnmbsr OF the unfortu-
mates were not only swallowed up In the
wrath OF the awful dery furnace, but that
their bodies were 80 perfectly inciner-
Ated that their ashes could not be
gathered from the debris The sight was
sickenlng and most f0rbidding 20 wit
meas.
OVERLOOKED CREWS.
IL has been reported that the crews on
this rosd have been so overwOrked that
it has bese = matter Of necessity for those
on duty TO make use of some expedient
20 keep them awake and In doing this the
engineer OF the freight train made .
choice Of liquor. We cannot vouch for
shis report, bus the blame rests some
whers, aud there should be instituted at
once n thorough Investigation, which We
douoI not viii be done through the med
lum OF the inquest 70 Dc held by Coroner
Upper
Among those who were saved from the
wreck remaining IN hepuoiic were
mother with three httIe ones. hardly out
OF their sWAddling clothes' She husband
and father OF the children, with two sons
were devouTed oY the WrAthlul flames OF
tne burning cars In some way that
the Is oS 30 Sd hs see
travelling, and wandering away from the
burning train, carrying her two young
children in her arms, entered the first
house In which sne found light. She
was almost crAzed with fear: and with
d.icuy " was ssce 9T PS,,d that the ner
nam name Ma Ne ,ha, IL ~ S1un"a.,|;
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Ano exposed 10 nno =, q nome IN Chill
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were telsgrAphed, she consented 70 res
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